At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...

MOUNT VERNON — Spiky chestnut burrs resembling sea urchins lie on the ground, blending in with orange leaves that have fallen. Beth and Kevin Meenaghan open up a burr to reveal a smooth, brown ...

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started with a chestnut encased inside a small ziplock filled with moist peat-moss.

More than 20 years ago, Dr. Fred Hebard and a handful of workers started out with an 8N Ford tractor, 20 acres of land, and a vision for restoring the American chestnut tree. Today, four Meadowview ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. For generations, American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) fed people and ...

It’s a blessing moving into a home, as I did 13 years ago, where the previous owners had been interested in the plantings. Hence a lovely hawthorn, flowering dogwood, flowering quince and a linden ...

To facilitate a harvest that could prove a key step in the decades-long effort to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut, Go Native Tree Farm employees used a 55-foot lift to gather the neon ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. — One southern Indiana family truly has one of the largest trees in the nation. Richard and Kris Schepman’s family farm, located outside of Crothersville, is home to a swamp ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to ...

Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a reason you find so many stretches of road that carry that name here and ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. — Indiana Governor Mike Braun visited a record-setting tree in Jennings County this week. The tree that drew the attention of Indiana’s governor is a swamp chestnut oak tree ...